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Alexander 3 of Mecedon (twenty/21 July 356 BC – 11 June 323 BC), commonly known equally Alexander the Bully, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father King Philip II to the throne at the age of 20, and spent virtually of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Western Asia and Northeastern Africa. By the historic period of thirty, he had created 1 of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern Republic of india. He was undefeated in boxing and is widely considered to exist 1 of history's greatest and most successful military machine commanders.

Quotes [edit]

• What an first-class horse do they lose, for desire of accost and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this equus caballus better than others do.
  • Statement upon seeing Bucephalas being led abroad as useless and beyond training, every bit quoted in Lives past Plutarch, as translated by Arthur Hugh Clough

• Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same affair as the conquered?
  • As quoted in Lives by Plutarch, 7, "Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar" (twoscore.2), equally translated by Bernadotte Perrin

• Holy shadows of the expressionless, I'yard not to arraign for your barbarous and bitter fate, merely the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do non experience happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would exist glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united past the same language, the aforementioned blood and the same visions.
  • Addressing the expressionless Hellenes (the Athenean and Thebean Greeks) of the Battle of Chaeronea, as quoted in Historiae Alexandri Magni by Quintus Curtius Rufus

• If I were non Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.
  • After Diogenes of Sinope who was lying in the sun, responded to a query by Alexander asking if he could do anything for him with a answer requesting that he stop blocking his sunlight. Every bit quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarch, 332 a-b

• I do not steal victory.
  • Reply to the suggestion by Parmenion, earlier the Battle of Gaugamela, that he attack the Persian army camp during the night, reported in Life of Alexander by Plutarch, every bit quoted in A History of Hellenic republic to the Expiry of Alexander the Keen (1900) by John Bagnell Coffin

• If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and ocean, to push the premises of Republic of macedonia to the farthest Bounding main, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not exist content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine writer and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance once more in India and revive the retention of the Bacchic revels amongst the savage mount tribes beyond the Kaukasos...
  • As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarch, 332 a-b

• Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries accept lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the difficult school of danger and war. Above all, nosotros are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to exist sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; nosotros, on the reverse, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our strange troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the all-time and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will detect as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the ii men in supreme command? You lot accept Alexander, they — Darius!
  • Addressing his troops prior to the Battle of Issus, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian Volume II, vii

• Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did u.s.a. great damage, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from yous.
  • Alexander'south letter of the alphabet to Farsi male monarch Darius III of Persia in response to a truce plea, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian; translated every bit Anabasis of Alexander by P. A. Burden, for the "Loeb Edition" Book II 14, 4

• And then would I, if I were Parmenion.
  • As quoted in Lives by Plutarch, after Parmenion suggested to him after the Battle of Issus that he should accept Darius III of Persia'due south offer of an alliance, the mitt of his girl in union, and all Minor Asia, saying "If I were Alexander, I would accept the terms" (Variant translation: I would accept information technology if I were Alexander).
  • Variants: I too, if I were Parmenion. But I am Alexander.
    So would I, if I were Parmenion.
    So should I, if I were Parmenion.
    So should I, if I were Parmenion: merely as I am Alexander, I cannot.
    I would do information technology if I was Parmenion, but I am Alexander.
    If I were Parmenion, that is what I would exercise. Only I am Alexander and and so volition answer in some other way.
    Then would I, if I were Parmenion, but I am Alexander, and then I will send Darius a different answer.
    If I were Perdicas, I shall not fail to tell you lot, I would have endorsed this arrangement at once, merely I am Alexander, and I shall not do it. (as quoted from medieval French romances in The Medieval French Alexander (2002) past Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, p. 81)

• Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, and so that nosotros tin can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Farsi bondage, for equally Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.
  • As quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.15.ane-four

• Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I volition permit you lot free, if not for any other reason and so that you can see the departure between a Greek male monarch and a barbarian tyrant, and so do not await to suffer any impairment from me. A king does not kill messengers.
  • As quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-thirteen

• Are you withal to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom nosotros subdue?
  • Equally quoted in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by Arthur Hugh Clough

• To the strongest!
  • After being asked, by his generals on his deathbed, who was to succeed him. It has been speculated that his vocalism may accept been indistinct and that he may have said "Krateros" (the name of one of his generals), just Krateros was non effectually, and the others may take chosen to hear "Kratistos" — the strongest. As quoted in The Mask of Jove: a history of Graeco-Roman civilisation from the expiry of Alexander to the death of Constantine (1966) past Stringfellow Barr, p. 6

• At that place is zilch incommunicable to him who will try.
  • On taking charge of an set on on a fortress, in Pushing to the Forepart, or, Success under Difficulties : A Book of Inspiration (1896) past Orison Swett Marden, p. 55

• I consider not what Parmenion should receive, simply what Alexander should requite.
  • On his gifts for the services of others, equally quoted in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words That Have A Tale To Tell (1905) past Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, p. 30
  • Variant: It is non what Parmenio should receive, only what Alexander should give.
  • quoted in Alexander : A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War from Earliest Times to the Battle Of Ipsus, B. C. 301 (1899) past Theodore Ayrault Contrivance

• Sex activity and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
  • Every bit quoted in Alexander the Corking (1973) by Robin Lane Fob
  • Unsourced variant : Only sex and sleep make me witting that I am mortal.

• Shall I pass by and leave yous lying in that location considering of the expedition you led confronting Hellenic republic, or shall I set up you up once more because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?
  • Pausing and addressing to a fallen statue of Xerxes the Bully
  • Plutarch. The historic period of Alexander: nine Greek lives. Penguin, 1977. p. 294

• Dinocrates, I appreciate your design as first-class in composition, and I am delighted with information technology, only I apprehend that anybody who should found a metropolis in that spot would be censured for bad sentence. For as a newborn babe cannot be nourished without the nurse's milk, nor conducted to the approaches that lead to growth in life, so a city cannot thrive without fields and the fruits thereof pouring into its walls.
  • Vitruvius, De Architectura Bk. 2, Introduction, Sec. 3

• For my function, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the cognition of what is first-class, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
  • Quoted by Plutarch in Life of Alexander from Plutarch's Lives as translated past John Dryden (1683)

Disputed [edit]

An regular army of sheep, led by a lion, is better than an army of lions, led by a sheep.

• An regular army of sheep led by a king of beasts is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
  • Attributed to Alexander, as quoted in The British Battle Armada: Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day (1915) by Frederick Thomas Jane, but many variants of like statements exist which have been attributed to others, though in research done for Wikiquote definite citations of original documents have not withal been found for whatsoever of them:
  • I should prefer an army of stags led by a lion, to an army of lions led by a stag.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, who died effectually the time Alexander was born, thus his is the earliest life to whom such assertions take been attributed; every bit quoted in A Treatise on the Defence of Fortified Places (1814) by Lazare Carnot, p. 50
  • An regular army of stags led by a lion would exist improve than an army of lions led by a stag.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, A History of Ireland (1857) by Thomas Mooney, p. 760
  • An army of stags led by a king of beasts is superior to an ground forces of lions led by a stag.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, The New American Cyclopaedia : A Popular Dictionary of Full general Knowledge (1863), Vol. 4, p. 670
  • An regular army of sheep led by a lion are more to exist feared than an army of lions led by a sheep.
    • Attributed to Chabrias, The Older We Get, The Better We Were, Marine Corps Sea Stories (2004) by Vince Crawley, p. 67
  • Information technology is ameliorate to have sheep led past a lion than lions led by a sheep.
    • Attributed to Polybius in Between Spenser and Swift: English Writing in Seventeenth Century Republic of ireland (2005) by Deana Rankin, p. 124, citing A Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland, from 1641 to 1652 (1880) by John Thomas Gilbert Vol. I, i, p. 153 - 157; but conceivably this might exist reference to Polybius the historian quoting either Alexander or Chabrias.
  • An army composed of sheep but led past a lion is more powerful than an ground forces of lions led by a sheep.
    • "Proverb" quoted past Agostino Nifo in De Regnandi Peritia (1523) as cited in Machiavelli - The First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance (2005) past Mathew Thomson, p. 55
  • Greater is an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep.
    • Attributed to Daniel Defoe (c. 1659 - 1731)
  • I am more than afraid of one hundred sheep led past a lion than one hundred lions led by a sheep.
    • Attributed to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754 – 1838) Variants: I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a panthera leo than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
      I am not afraid of an army of ane hundred lions led by a sheep. I am afraid of regular army of 100 sheeps led by a lion.
  • Variants quoted every bit an anonymous saying:
    Meliorate a herd of sheep led by a lion than a herd of lions led by a sheep.
    A flock of sheep led past a lion was more powerful than a flock of lions led past a sheep.
    An army of sheep led past a panthera leo would defeat an ground forces of lions led past a sheep.
    Information technology were meliorate to have an army of sheep led by a panthera leo than an army of lions led by a sheep.
    An army of sheep led by a lion, will defeat an regular army of lions led past a sheep.
    An army of sheep led past a panthera leo would exist superior to an army of lions led by a sheep.
    Unsourced attribution to Alexander: I would non fear a pack of lions led by a sheep, just I would always fear a flock of sheep led by a lion.
  • Equally 1 king of beasts overcomes many people and equally one wolf scatters many sheep, then likewise will I, with i word, destroy the peoples who take come up against me.
    • This slightly similar statement is the simply quote relating to lions in The History of Alexander the Great, Being the Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Callisthenes (1889) as translated by Eastward. A. Wallis Budge, but it is attributed to Nectanebus (Nectanebo Two).

• In that location are no more worlds to conquer!
  • Argument portrayed as a quotation in a 1927 Reader's Digest commodity, this probably derives from traditions about Alexander lamenting at his begetter Philip's victories that at that place would be no conquests left for him, or that after his conquests in Egypt and Asia there were no worlds left to conquer.
  • Some of the oldest accounts of this, every bit quoted by John Calvin state that on "hearing that there were other worlds, wept that he had not yet conquered i."
  • This may originate from Plutarch's essay On the Tranquility of Mind, part of the essays Moralia: Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse almost an space number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it non worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have non still become lords of a single one?" ^[i]
  • There are no more than other worlds to conquer!
    • Variant attributed equally his "concluding words" at a few sites on the internet, only in no published sources.

Quotes about Alexander [edit]

It is better to believe in men as well rashly, and regret, than believe as well meanly. Men could exist more than they are, if they would try for information technology. He has shown them that. … Those who look in mankind but for their own littleness, and brand them believe in that, kill more he always will in all his wars. ~ Mary Renault

• What is the purpose of adventuring around the world? A king must exist an ambassador. ... Alexander was a man full of peachy sound, lighting, and thunderbolt; [he was] similar a cloud in spring or summertime, which passed over the kings of the earth, rained upon them, and disappeared—indeed a summer's cloud disappears very before long [saying italicized].
  • Abu'fifty-Fazl Bayhaqi, Tarikh-i Bayhaqi, Volume Six, edited by Ali-Akbar Fayyaz, pages 118-119; in context of praising the Ghaznavid kings

• Alexander sacrificed to the gods to whom it was his custom to cede, and gave a public banquet, seated all the Persians, and so any persons from the other peoples who took precedence for rank or whatever other loftier quality, and he himself and those effectually him drank from the same bowl and poured the same libations, with the Greek soothsayers and Magi initiating the anniversary. Alexander prayed for various blessings and particularly that the Macedonians and Persians should relish harmony as partners in government. The story prevails that those who shared the feast were nine thousand and that they all poured the same libation and gave the one victory weep as they did.
  • Arrian in Anabasis Alexandri, 7.2.6-9

• [Diogenes speaking to Alexander] "Now maybe y'all kings are also doing something like that: each of you has playmates — the eager followers on his side — he [Darius] his Persians and the other peoples of Asia, and y'all [Alexander] your Macedonians and the other Greeks."
  • Dio Chrysostom, "Orationes", iv.48

• "Demades said that Xerxes fortified the sea with his ships, covered the country with his armies, concealed the sky with his weapons, and filled Persia with Greek prisoners. And now justly the barbarian is praised by Athenians because he took convict Greeks, but Alexander, a Greek, and leading Greeks, did not take captive those arrayed against him.[...]No one of the Greek kings went to Egypt except Alexander alone, and he went, not to make war, only to consult an oracle as to where he should plant a city which would forever comport his name.[...]So Alexander was the first of the Greeks to accept Egypt, and and then became the first both of Greeks and of barbarians."
  • Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, ii.four

• Remota itaque iustitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia? [...] Eleganter enim et ueraciter Alexandro illi Magno quidam comprehensus pirata respondit. Nam cum idem rex hominem interrogaret, quid ei uideretur, ut mare haberet infestum, ille libera contumacia: Quod tibi, inquit, ut orbem terrarum; sed quia <id> ego exiguo nauigio facio, latro uocor; quia tu magna classe, imperator.
  • Justice being taken away, and then, what are kingdoms just dandy robberies? ... Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Swell by a pirate who had been seized. For when that male monarch had asked the homo what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, "What grand meanest past seizing the whole earth; simply because I exercise it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."
    • Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, Book IV, Ch. 4

• Later fighting, scheming and murdering in pursuit of the secure tenure of accented ability, he institute himself at final on a solitary pinnacle over an abyss, with no apply for his power and security unattainable. His genius was such that he concluded an epoch and began some other - but one of unceasing war and misery, from which exhaustion produced an arroyo to order subsequently two generations and peace at last nether the Roman Empire. He himself never establish peace. Ane is tempted to meet him, in medieval terms, as the man who sold his soul to the Devil for ability: the Devil kept his part of the deal but ultimately claimed his own. But to the historian, prosaically such apologue, we must put information technology differently: to him, when he has done all the piece of work - piece of work that must exist done, and done advisedly - of analysing the play of faction and the organization of government, Alexander illustrates with startling clarity the ultimate loneliness of supreme power.
  • Ernst Badian, Studies in Greek and Roman History, Alexander the Great and the Loneliness of Ability, 1964 p. 204

• Alexander the Great, reflecting on his friends degenerating into sloth and luxury, told them that it was a nearly slavish thing to luxuriate, and a nigh royal affair to labour.
  • Isaac Barrow, in "Sermon 51 : Of Manufacture in General", in Sermons on Various Subjects (1823), Vol. 3. p. 33

• The ancient writers tell of the peculiar "melting" glance of his optics, or of the way in which, as Plutarch says, his body seemed to glow. They are patently trying to describe something which they institute it difficult to express. He also grew up, to the delight of Philip, serious-minded, untiring, passionately cracking to succeed in any difficult job, and yet more nifty the more than difficult it was.
  He was a great reader, too. He had been early caught by the glamour of the Tale of Troy, like nearly Greek boys; and he never grew weary of it. Every bit far equally the Oxus and the Indus, he carried with him his personal re-create of the Iliad...
  • A. R. Burn, in Alexander the Slap-up and the Hellenistic Empire (1948), p. 11

• When he says that in that day all his thoughts perish, or menstruum away, perhaps under this expression he censures the madness of princes in setting no bounds to their hopes and desires, and scaling the very heavens in their appetite, like the insane Alexander of Macedon, who, upon hearing that there were other worlds, wept that he had not nevertheless conquered one, although shortly later the funeral urn sufficed him.
  • John Calvin, in his interpretation of Psalm 146 in On The Book Of Psalms (1557) equally translated by Rev. James Anderson (1849)

• Having only that one hope, the accomplishment of information technology, of effect, must put an finish to all my hopes; and what a wretch is he who must survive his hopes! Nothing remains when that day comes, but to sit down down and weep like Alexander, when he wanted other worlds to conquer.
  • William Congreve, in words for the grapheme Fainall in Way of the World (1700)
  • Variants on this theme:
  • Then he saturday down and wept because in that location were non other worlds for him to conquer.
    • James Baldwin's 30 More Famous Stories Retold (1905)
  • He cried considering there were no more worlds to conquer.
    • Twilight Zone episode "Of Belatedly I Think of Cliffordville" (1963)
  • And when Alexander saw the latitude of his domain, he wept, for at that place were no more worlds to conquer.
    • "Hans Gruber" in Dice Difficult (1988); this is sometimes mistaken as a quote from more ancient sources; Hans claims it is from Plutarch, who wrote Life of Alexander. While aboriginal sources record that Alexander sat and wept because he had conquered the known world, the actual wording of this quote is the same as the Twilight Zone episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" (1963).

• Of the life of Alexander we have 5 consecutive narratives...Hither, information technology might, he thought, are regime enough; hut unluckily, among all the v, there is not a unmarried contemporary chronicler. All five write at secondhand, ... Diodorus we believe to be perfectly honest, only he is, at the aforementioned fourth dimension, impenetrably stupid. Plutarch, every bit he himself tells u.s., does not write history... his object is to recount anecdotes, rather to point a moral than to give a formal narrative of political and military events. Justin is a feeble and careless epitomizer. Quintus Curtius is, in our eyes, trivial amend than a romance-writer; he is the just 1 of the five whom nosotros should doubtable of any wilful deviation from the truth.
  • Freedman, Historical Essays, [two], quoted in Devahuti, D., & Indian History and Culture Society. (1980). Bias in Indian historiography. Delhi: D.K. Publications. p. 84

• Nosotros must remember besides that Philip and Alexander were Greeks, descended from Heracles, wished to be recognised equally Greeks, as benefactors of the Greeks, even as Heracles had been.
  • Northward. Chiliad. L. Hammond, British scholar and expert on Macedon, Alexander the Bang-up: Male monarch, Commander and Statesman, p. 257

• After Philip's assassination at Aegae in 336, Alexander inherited, together with the Macedonian kingdom, his father's Panhellenic project to atomic number 82 the Greeks in the conquest of Persia.
  • Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, Alexander the Great: A New History, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, p.99

• Dhu al-Qarnain is Alexander the Greek, the king of Persia and Greece, or the king of the east and the west, for because of this he was called Dhul-Qarnayn [meaning, "the two-horned 1"]...
  • Ibn Hisham, in a notation on the Qur'an; encounter too Alexander the Great in the Qur'an

• Nosotros are not in the state of affairs of poor Alexander the Peachy, who wept, as well indeed he might, because there were no more than worlds to conquer; for, to do justice to this queer, odd, rantipole metropolis, and this whimsical country, in that location is matter enough in them to continue our risible muscles and our pens going until doomsday.
  • Washington Irving in Salmagundi : Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others (1835)

• In the e the day was reddening,
  When the warriors pass'd;
  In the due west the nighttime was deadening,
  Every bit they looked their last;
  As they looked their last on him —
  He, their comrade — their commander
  He, the earth's adored —
  He, the godlike Alexander !
  Who can wield his sword ?
  As they went their eyes were dim,
  The silver-shielded warriors,
  The warriors of the globe !
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, "The Death-Bed of Alexander the Corking", The New Monthly Mag, Volume 45, Role 3 (1835), p. 303

• The simply human being with whom I felt any kinship died three hundred years earlier the birth of Christ. Alexander of Macedonia. I idolized him. A young army commander, he'd swept along the coasts of Turkey and Phoenicia, subduing Arab republic of egypt before turning his armies towards Persia. He died, thirty-three, ruling most of the civilized world. Ruling without barbarism! At Alexandria, he instituted the ancient world's greatest seat of learning. True, people died ... peradventure unnecessarily, though who can judge such things? Yet how he nearly approached his vision of a united globe! I was determined to measure my success against his. Firstly, I gave away my inheritance. to demonstrate the possibility of achieving anything starting from nothing. Next, I departed for Northern Turkey, to retrace my hero's steps. I wanted to match his accomplishment, bringing an historic period of illumination to a benighted globe. Heh. I wanted to take something to say should we come across in the hall of legends. I followed the path of Alexander'south state of war machine along the black body of water coast, imagining his armies taking port later port, blood on aboriginal statuary. Perhaps because of the claiming it represented: the ancient earth's greatest puzzle was there, a knot that couldn't exist untied. Alexander cutting it in two with his sword. Lateral thinking, you see. Centuries ahead of his time. Heading south, he entered Egypt through Memphis, where they proclaimed him son of Amon, judge of the dead, whose proper noun means "hidden one." Nether rule from Alexandria, the archetype civilization of the great Pharaohs was restored. I followed him through Babylon, up through Kabul to Samarkhand and then down the Indus, where he met the start elephants of war. Where he'd turned back to quell dissent at home, I travelled on, through Cathay and Tibet, gathering martial wisdom as I went. Alexander returned to Babylon to die of an infection, anile thirty-three, amongst its ruined ziggurats. I saw at last his failings. He'd non united all the globe, nor built a unity that would survive him. Disillusioned, but adamant, to complete my odyssey, I followed his corpse to its resting place in Alexandria.
  • Alan Moore for the character Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, Watchmen, #xi, August 1987, p. 10-thirteen.

• I accept wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is built-in of fear. Each moment free from fearfulness makes a man immortal.
  • Mary Renault's portrayal of Alexander in Fire from Sky (1969)

• It is better to believe in men also rashly, and regret, than believe also meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. How many have tried, because of him? Not simply those I have seen; there will be men to come. Those who expect in mankind but for their ain littleness, and make them believe in that, kill more than he ever will in all his wars.
  • Mary Renault, The Persian Boy (1972)

• When magic through fretfulness and reason passes, imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is inverse.
  • Dejan Stojanovic in Circling, "Alexander the Great" (Sequence: "A Warden with No Keys") (1993)

• Once upon a time, in days of long ago, Alexander the Bully complained bitterly that there were no worlds left for him to conquer.
  • Alfred Wainwright, A Pennine Journeying : The Story of a Long Walk in 1938 (1986), p. 1

• In one case upon a fourth dimension, Aristotle taught Alexander that he should restrain himself from frequently approaching his married woman, who was very cute, lest he should impede his spirit from seeking the general practiced. Alexander acquiesed to him. The queen, when she perceived this and was upset, began to describe Aristotle to love her. Many times she crossed paths with him alone, with bare feet and disheveled pilus, so that she might entice him.
  At last, being enticed, he began to solicit her carnally. She says,
  "This I volition certainly not practice, unless I meet a sign of love, lest you be testing me. Therefore, come up to my chamber crawling on hand and foot, in club to bear me similar a equus caballus. Then I'll know that you aren't deluding me."
  When he had consented to that condition, she secretly told the matter to Alexander, who lying in wait apprehended him carrying the queen. When Alexander wished to impale Aristotle, in order to excuse himself, Aristotle says,
  If thus it happened to me, an former man most wise, that I was deceived past a woman, you can see that I taught you well, that it could happen to you, a fellow."
  Hearing that, the rex spared him, and made progress in Aristotle's teachings.
  • Anonymous, Phyllis and Aristotle.

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

Primary sources

• Alexander the Great: An annotated list of primary sources from Livius.org
• Wiki Classical Dictionary, extant sources and fragmentary and lost sources
• Plutarch, Life of Alexander (in English language)
• Justin, Prototype of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus (in English language)
• Plutarch, Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great (in English language)
• Quintus Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander (in Latin)

Projects

• Alexander the Great on the Web, a comprehensive directory of some 1,000 sites
• Livius Project articles on Alexander by Jona Lendering
• Pothos.org: Alexander'southward Abode on the Web
• Wiki Classical Dictionary: Category Alexander the Great, a Mediawiki based projection, with stricter guidelines and editors

Give-and-take

• Pothos Forum

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